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To: DB
Dumb statement. Energy (power over time) and just "power" are two different things.

True, but there aren't any really good terms to describe pulse discharges in an understandable common language way. Take the power pottential of a handful of flashlight batteries. Not much to be iimpressed with, and most people would be more than willing to have them connected to their body (maybe not teeth though) without worry. take those same batteries, step the voltage up to about 100,000 + and charge a pulse discharge capacitor till the batteries are exhausted. Apply the same overall power of the battteries to your body in this manner and you will have a very different end result than with just the batteries hooked up directly. (an interesting demo of this is to construct the capacitor arrangement and discharge it into a hot dog, with one terminal connected to each end. But only if you are very, very familiar with working with high voltages and capacitors. Hands on experience, not book learning experience)

22 posted on 01/19/2003 8:54:31 AM PST by templar
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To: templar
high voltages and capacitors. Hands on experience,

Reminded me of the basic electronics portion of a US Army school I attended in 65.
We'd charge up the a large capacitor to 350VDC or so,
and then toss it to another student.
The natural response is of course to catch the thrown object,
resulting in a painful discharge
into the victims hands.
Usually only once per student.
After that, "Hey Joe, catch!" resulted in the duck and weave instead
of the catch response.

Is that "hands on," enough for you? ;o)

23 posted on 01/19/2003 9:15:21 AM PST by ASA Vet ("Head shots defeat body armor" G. Gordon Liddy)
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